Posted on 11/22/2022 2:38:16 PM PST by nickcarraway
Noah’s Ark is among the best known and most captivating of all Old Testament stories: After creating humans, God became so displeased with them that he struck Earth with an all-encompassing flood to wipe them out—with one noteworthy (and seaworthy) exception: the biblical patriarch and his family, accompanied by pairs of each of the planet’s animals, who rode out the deluge in an enormous wooden vessel.
For people who accept the religious text as a historically accurate account of actual events, the hunt for archaeological evidence of the Ark is equally captivating, inspiring some intrepid faithful to comb the slopes of Armenia’s Mt. Ararat and beyond for traces of the wooden vessel.
In 1876, for example, British attorney and politician James Bryce climbed Mount Ararat, where Biblical accounts say the Ark came to rest, and claimed a piece of wood that “suits all the requirements of the case” was in fact a piece of the vessel. More modern Ark “discoveries” take place on a regular basis, from an optometrist’s report he’d seen it in a rock formation above the mountain in the 1940s to a claim Evangelical pastors had found petrified wood on the peak in the early 2000s.
But searches for the Ark draw everything from exasperation to disdain from academic archaeologists and biblical scholars. “No legitimate archaeologist does this,” says National Geographic Explorer Jodi Magness, an archaeologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, of modern searches for evidence of Noah.
“Archaeology is not treasure hunting,” she adds. “It’s not about finding a specific object. It’s a science where we come up with research questions that we hope to answer by excavation.”
Flood or fiction?
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Moses would have known. He was the one writing the account. He grew up in Egypt and would have known all about the length of a cubit. And, God filled in the details.
I am skeptical of the notion that all flood stories relate to a common event, or even to the same kind of a flood. After all, hurricanes and devastating storm surges are a feature of that part of the world. A really bad one could inspire a flood myth, connecting a natural event to the workings of the supernatural realm.
You are missing the point. A modern man went to the site where he thinks he found the Arc, and announced his find was exactly 300 cubits long. WE, as in WE people now living, do not have any idea how long Noah’s cubit happened to be. It is exactly like saying, “Hey, this is exactly as long as Montezuma’s winter blanket”.
An ark is a chest, a box. A boat or a refrigerator can fit that word.
The penalty of sin is death. That is established in Genesis after Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden.
Also, recall the Ark was not designed for multiple trips. It only had to survive the initial cruise.
——>WE, as in WE people now living, do not have any idea how long Noah’s cubit happened to be.
Sure we do...
from the link I posted:
The ancient cubit measurement, which Noah used in constructing the Ark, would almost certainly have been the same as that which was used by the civilizations which arose from the descendants of the survivors of the flood.
The ancient cubit has been identified as measuring 0.5235 metres (20.6 inches), and has been found to be the unit measure which was used in the construction of the pyramids in Egypt, and in Solomon’s palace in Israel. By converting the length of this ancient cubit, into metres, the dimensions of the Ark, would be as follows:
LENGTH: 300 CUBITS = 157 METRES (515.9 FEET)
BREADTH: 50 CUBITS = 26.2 METRES (85.7 FEET)
HEIGHT: 30 CUBITS = 15.7 METRES (51.6 FEET)
How did the people of places as far away as Japan and South America also know the story from Mesopotamia?
The accounts in Genesis form the foundation to understand the rest of Scripture.
We have creation, man and woman, sin and its consequences and God making a provision for their forgiveness.
If I had half the money back I put into Asteroids.....
As one reads the NT there are multiple references to the events in Genesis. Jesus and the writers of the NT understood them to be real.
I thought it was the best thing ever at the time.
Some current video games are better written than most movies.
They didn’t. People experienced local storms and floods and developed stories to explain them.
The ark would have been built like a barge. Not like the photos they represent it as, like a boat.
It would have been easier to construct and a hell of a lot more stable.
——>The ark would have been built like a barge.
A barge with 3 stories? Don’t think so.
Genesis 6:
15And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
16A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
And yet the author of Genesis knew might was created before the sun moon and stars - something modern science didn’t prove until 50 years ago. And Job (the oldest book in the Bible) states the earth is hung on nothing and revolves around the sun. Pretty good for not a science text
Except that thats not true. Nearly every ancient culture has the same story of a global deluge with some variation of the details.
Ants walking across an inflated balloon believe it is a solid object because they are too small to effect the surface and they have very small minds.
Humans believe the earth is a solid object also because they are too small to effect the surface and have very small minds.
If you took two small frying pans and froze ice rounds in them and then put a water balloon between the two like a water balloon sandwich, would that effect the shape of the water balloon?
You dont pay much attention to ship design do you.
When you understand design of craft and how they do in certain conditions you’ll soon understand that a rectangle design would be way more stable than a craft designed to be powered through the water.
Besides that..it was built to just float like a raft.
They have done studies on that very thing and having built scaled models and tried them in extreme conditions, the rectangle design stayed afloat where the typical boat design failed.
Marine Engineering classes taught at Sturgeon Bay WI by ship designers from Bay Ship builders taught us that when I went to tech college back in the day. That is why they call Great Lakes Freighters BOATS.
Myself and those of my class will have quite a bit more information on things like that than you might find interesting if you cared to know anything about it.
BTW..before you go off on..”It’ll tip over” there is a thing called ballast.
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